68.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 71.4%
- 2021: 68.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bungarribee · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bungarribee
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Language diversity is among the highest of any similar area in Bungarribee. A huge 68% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes it a very multicultural pocket of Greater Sydney.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by only 28.9% of residents, while Hindi (8.6%) and Punjabi (5.9%) are the next most common. About 5.2% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the Australian average.
5.2% ▼ -18.9%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Bungarribee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10679/bungarribee/topic/language